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This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-04-25
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What is it for there to be a God, and what reason is there for supposing him to conform to the claims of Christian doctrine? In this pivotal volume of his tetralogy, Richard Swinburne builds a rigorous metaphysical system for describing the world, and applies this to...
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Clarendon Press
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1994-10-06
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Philips defends a middle ground between the view that there is a set of standards binding on rational beings as such (universalism) and the view that differences in morals reduce ultimately to matters of taste (skepticism). He begins with a sustained critique of...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-02-17
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What is death? Do people survive death?What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death. In the...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-01-13
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What is death? Do people survive death?What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death. In the...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-01-13
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Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-05-27
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Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-05-27
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In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-05-27
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How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions respecting abortion laws to be determined by...
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Oxford University Press
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1987-12-10
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Seeking to rediscover the connection between philosophy as studied in universities and those general views of man and reality which are 'philosophy' to the educated layman, Edward Craig here offers a view of philosophy and its history since the early seventeenth...
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Clarendon Press
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1987-06-04
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Robert Merrihew Adams has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the commands of God. This collection of Adams' essays, two of which are previously unpublished, draws from his extensive writings on...
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Oxford University Press
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1987-04-30
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A pochi passi dalla corte di Elisabetta I, in una serata di febbraio segnata dalla pioggia e dai rigori del Puritanesimo, si consuma un banchetto filosofico che cambierà per sempre la concezione del cosmo. La cena de le ceneri – il primo e più scandaloso dei dialoghi...
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Cactus
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2025-09-29
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Giove, stanco del disordine e della corruzione che affliggono il firmamento, convoca un concilio degli dèi. Il suo obiettivo è audace: epurare le costellazioni, simboli di vizi e errori antichi, per sostituirle con nuove virtù. È questo lo “spaccio”, la cacciata della...
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Cactus
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2025-09-29
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Rensi ha a lungo riflettuto sul pensiero di Spinoza, elaborando del filosofo olandese forse una delle migliori interpretazioni novecentesche. Sfuggendo banali catalogazioni,Rensi fonde scetticismo, pessimismo e materialismo in un amalgama del tutto originale che lo pone...
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Cactus
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2024-11-30
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Massima realizzazione di Spinoza, l'Etica espone il suo sistema metafisico, al quale lavorò dal 1661 al 1665 per poi concluderlo poco prima di morire. Dio o la Natura non agiscono secondo scopi, ma per necessità: bene o male non indicano qualcosa di positivo nelle cose,...
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Cactus
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2024-07-21
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Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2023-04-04
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There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a range of philosophies in France...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2012-12-15
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Not much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilization—including the political, economic, and social dimensions—are present in his literary works and abound in his...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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The introduction of Aristotelianism into the West created conflict, disruption, and turmoil. Not least, it confronted the Middle Ages with a serious problem concerning the possible conflict between reason and faith. In part, the controversy surrounding Aristotelianism...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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In The Transcendence of the World, Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our experience of the world—the world meant as independent of any particular awareness of it. Focussing on the writings of...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2010-10-30
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